Informal Cold Bore Challenge

[Mw01313]

Did this yesterday. Stopped by the range on the way home from a store run.
Rifle is a Ruger American Ranch 5.56 shooting frontier 223 68g JHBT. Put 5 rounds in the mag and started from the bipod and back bag in prone at 300 yds. Two hits in the middle are first 2 shots. Lower impact is from using the remaining 3 rounds trying to find a position that worked off my tripod with spotter attached. Lot of work to do there.

 

[YaakRiver]

Did this yesterday. Stopped by the range on the way home from a store run.
Rifle is a Ruger American Ranch 5.56 shooting frontier 223 68g JHBT. Put 5 rounds in the mag and started from the bipod and back bag in prone at 300 yds. Two hits in the middle are first 2 shots. Lower impact is from using the remaining 3 rounds trying to find a position that worked off my tripod with spotter attached. Lot of work to do there.

Nice work!

 

[YukonCorneliusAurelius]

Thanks for joining in! It was beginning to become a rivalry thread between YaakRiver and me. That’s some good shooting!

 

[Mw01313]

Nice work!

Thanks for joining in! It was beginning to become a rivalry thread between YaakRiver and me. That’s some good shooting!

Thank you. Between kids and work I will probably miss some days, but I live very close to my range. Going to try to get in at least 4 short visits a week in addition to shooting for load development. 300 is max at that range, so I am going to try to work on positions.
A little rodeo with a bull this fall showed me I have work to do on my shooting.

 

[YaakRiver]

Thank you. Between kids and work I will probably miss some days, but I live very close to my range. Going to try to get in at least 4 short visits a week in addition to shooting for load development. 300 is max at that range, so I am going to try to work on positions.
A little rodeo with a bull this fall showed me I have work to do on my shooting.

You your comment about the bull is exactly why I think participating in “challenges” like this are so important. Nothing to win. No bragging. Just figuring out how bad we suck and working on getting better.

There’s no rules about how often or what distance. Thanks for joining!

 

[Mw01313]

You your comment about the bull is exactly why I think participating in “challenges” like this are so important. Nothing to win. No bragging. Just figuring out how bad we suck and working on getting better.

There’s no rules about how often or what distance. Thanks for joining!

Yessir. I whiffed one at 400 from prone. Broadside and feeding. Ended up getting him killed but it really should have been much cleaner than what it turned into. I spent last year getting in better physical shape to handle hiking and packing. Gonna keep going with the workouts, but that situation showed me I have work to do on my shooting.
I had a benelli in the safe that I never used, so I traded it in on a training rifle. Plan is to see how many rounds I can put through it in the next 12 months. Specs are below.
Ruger American ranch 5.56
Rifle is stock
I put a vortex 2.5x10x40something viper on it. Think it's the first Gen pst. It was a scope I have had forever
Otter creek polonium got snatched off an AR.
Rifle loves cheap factory stuff. I settled on the Frontier 223 68g JHP match. It also shot the cheap hornady loads with 55gr soft points pretty well. I am really enjoying it. I have fired more rounds since Christmas than I did in the six months before.
Was able to stop by the range right at dark today. Loaded 5 in the mag and started off of my tripod from a seated position. I am still trying to work out the tripod shooting deal. The one I have is barely serviceable for glassing and isn't good at all to shoot off of. I should have a better one showing up this week. I was happy with the first two shots. Then of course I dropped the last three. Guess if I can pick hits and misses, I'd rather hit with the first round over last. Pic shows 1st two shots. Other three were in the berm. Clean misses.

 

[YaakRiver]

Won’t keep posting rifle and load data. Wind today was shifting 2-6 mph. Got a first round cold bore hit at 476 yards holding about 1 moa of wind. Then I missed at 655 yards followed by a hit at that distance. Still working on reading wind.

 

[YukonCorneliusAurelius]

Rifle: Factory Tikka t3x lite action and barrel chambered in .223; cerakoted, cut to 20” and threaded by Corey at Selkirk Mountain Arms. Factory trigger with Unknown Munitions trigger spring.
- Stock: Tikka CTR stock
- Scope: Athlon Ares BTR Gen II 2.5-15x50 ffp ir-mil in Unknown Munitions rings
- Ammo: Hornady 75 gr BTHP hand loads at 2760 fps
- Bipod: Spartan Javelin
- Spotter: Kowa TSN-553 with a Wiser Precision Nighthawk on a SLIK 634 PRO CF
- Phone/Adapter: iPhone with Kapture Gear

Conditions were very snow and windy. The wind was switching from L-H to R-L and back again at 5-10 mph. 33°f and 26.69 hg. Target was an 8” circle at 476 yds. Wind was L-R 6ish mph when shot was fired. Held 0.6 mils left. Impact was just below the mid line in the left half of the target.

Oh, and I shot first so that “I wouldn’t have the benefit of YaakRiver’s shot ahead of mine.

 

[YaakRiver]

Yessir. I whiffed one at 400 from prone. Broadside and feeding. Ended up getting him killed but it really should have been much cleaner than what it turned into. I spent last year getting in better physical shape to handle hiking and packing. Gonna keep going with the workouts, but that situation showed me I have work to do on my shooting.
I had a benelli in the safe that I never used, so I traded it in on a training rifle. Plan is to see how many rounds I can put through it in the next 12 months. Specs are below.
Ruger American ranch 5.56
Rifle is stock
I put a vortex 2.5x10x40something viper on it. Think it's the first Gen pst. It was a scope I have had forever
Otter creek polonium got snatched off an AR.
Rifle loves cheap factory stuff. I settled on the Frontier 223 68g JHP match. It also shot the cheap hornady loads with 55gr soft points pretty well. I am really enjoying it. I have fired more rounds since Christmas than I did in the six months before.
Was able to stop by the range right at dark today. Loaded 5 in the mag and started off of my tripod from a seated position. I am still trying to work out the tripod shooting deal. The one I have is barely serviceable for glassing and isn't good at all to shoot off of. I should have a better one showing up this week. I was happy with the first two shots. Then of course I dropped the last three. Guess if I can pick hits and misses, I'd rather hit with the first round over last. Pic shows 1st two shots. Other three were in the berm. Clean misses.

Tripod shooting can be tough even with a good setup. We had wind and snow today so I decided to continue at distance.

The ammo I’m using is AAC 75 gr BTHP. It’s around ¢.55/round through palmetto state armory. Cheap and more accurate than I am.